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20 MAY 08 by
Sarah
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One of the buds on my Golden Masterpiece opened this weekend; as it was opening, I happened to look into the half-open flower and noticed a veritable swarm of very small light brown bugs. They were perhaps one or two millimeters long - the barest fraction of an inch. I sprayed into the flower as best I could, watched the bugs I could see stop moving, and left the flower to finish opening. The next day, the rose was fully open and crispy already, though the edges had NOT turned brown. I went ahead and cut it off and threw it out.
As I'm a novice gardener and rose owner here, I'm not 100% certain I've diagnosed the problem - or rather, the bugs. Were those thrips, or something else?
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#1 of 2 posted
21 MAY 08 by
 Cass
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Hi, Sarah, they might have been thrips. One easy way to tell is to wait for a bloom to open. Shake it over a piece of white paper. Thrips will appear tan and moving.
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#2 of 2 posted
22 MAY 08 by
Sarah
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Hi Cass,
Well, apparently I nuked the little buggers very well indeed. :) Two more blooms have opened on Golden Masterpiece since I cut off the infested one, with no sign of a similar infestation. I'm watching the Fragrant Cloud next to it carefully, especially since one of the buds has come up a bit deformed, but so far, so good.
Thanks!
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